Skeptiko 647 Darren King : The New Thinking Allowed Foundation

Reincarnation and RobotswithBen Goertzel

Ben Goertzel, PhD, is author of many books on artificial intelligence including Ten Years to the Singularity if We Really Really Try; Engineering General Intelligence, Vols. 1 and 2; The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind; and The Path to Posthumanity. He is also editor (with Damien Broderick) of an anthology about parapsychology titled, [...]

Andrew Paquette: Rigged! Mathematical Patterns Reveal Election Database Manipulation |646|

November 1, 2024

https://skeptiko.com/andrew-paquette-rigged-mathematical-patterns-reveal-election-database-manipulation-646/

Understanding Your KarmawithEdi Bilimoria

October 25, 2024

Edi Bilimoria, DPhil, FIMechE, CEng, is a Consultant Engineer and has been Project Manager and Head of Design for major projects such as the Channel Tunnel. He is a Trustee of the Scientific and Medical Network, Adviser to the Galileo Commission of the Network, a Trustee and a Council Member of the Francis Bacon Society, [...]

Toby Walsh: AI Ethics and the Quest for Unbiased Truth |645|

October 23, 2024

https://skeptiko.com/toby-walsh-ai-ethics-and-the-quest-for-unbiased-truth-645/

Alex Gomez-Marin: Science Has Died, Can We Resurrect it? |644|

October 16, 2024

Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin is a world-class expert on consciousness who isn’t afraid shatter dogma. This brilliant physicist-turned-neuroscientist is challenging the status quo, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of consciousness by working with a subject who can see even though blind from birth. In this dialogue with Alex Tsakiris, host of Skeptiko, we explore the frontiers of post-materialistic science [...]

Allan Kardec’s Spiritism

October 13, 2024

Let’s dive into the life and work of Allan Kardec, the founder of Spiritism, exploring the philosophy, history, and impact of this 19th-century movement. Kardec, a French educator, sought to bridge the gap between spirituality and science by codifying Spiritism—a system based on communication with spirits, reincarnation, and moral evolution. We examine his key works, [...]

Skeptiko 643 Bernardo Kastrup on AI Consciousness

October 9, 2024

If we really are on the brink of creating sentient machines, we might want to have a logically consistent understanding of what a sentence is… and heck, we might even want to look at empirical evidence for an answer.